Taskmaster Season 6 Episode 5
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Danish comedian Sofie Hagen made a voice appearance after Ryan called her during a task attempt in episode 1. Previous contestant Josh Widdicombe appeared in episode 3 to aid Osman and Richardson in a team task.
For team tasks, the team of three was made up of Gamble, Wix and Matafeo, with the team of two consisting of Baddiel and Brand, although this changed for a live task, with Baddiel and Gamble paired up.
The tenth series consisted of ten episodes and was the first series to be broadcast on Channel 4, broadcast between 15 October and 17 December 2020. Production on the series was affected by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and was therefore the first to be filmed without a studio audience. The majority of the tasks had been filmed prior to UK going into lockdown, but some team tasks were modified to follow social distancing.[15] The panellists were Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan and Richard Herring.[16]
A one-off festive special of Taskmaster was announced following the tenth series, and aired on 1 January 2021 under the title Taskmaster's New Year Treat. The special consisted of one episode and there were no team tasks. The special's contestants were John Hannah, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Nicola Coughlan, Rylan Clark-Neal and Shirley Ballas.[17]
The eleventh series was broadcast during 2021 with the usual ten-episode format, from 18 March to 20 May, and the contestants for that series were Charlotte Ritchie, Jamali Maddix, Lee Mack, Mike Wozniak and Sarah Kendall.[18][19]
As Britain was still dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and maintaining strict social distancing guidelines, filming was done in compliance with these, with virtual audiences allowed to watch complete footage and their laughter tracks recorded for the final edit of an episode before it is broadcast.
The contestants for the twelfth season were announced on 20 May 2021. The line-up includes Alan Davies, Desiree Burch, Guz Khan, Morgana Robinson and Victoria Coren Mitchell.[20] It began airing from 23 September 2021.[21]
On 3 December 2021, Avalon announced that Taskmaster would have a second "New Year Treat" special, featuring Adrian Chiles, Claudia Winkleman, Jonnie Peacock, Lady Leshurr and Sayeeda Warsi. Due to illness, Peacock could not attend the studio recording, so Alan Davies was present in his place. The special was the first since Series 9 to include a studio audience and not have the contestants or hosts socially distanced.
Following the final of series 12 on 25 November 2021, the cast for the show's thirteenth series was announced, set to begin on 14 April 2022. Series 13 features Ardal O'Hanlon, Bridget Christie, Chris Ramsey, Judi Love and Sophie Duker.[22]
Following the final of series 14 on 1 December 2022, the cast for the show's fifteenth series was announced. Series 15 features Frankie Boyle, Ivo Graham, Jenny Eclair, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Mae Martin.
On 23 November 2023, following the broadcast of the series 16 finale, it was revealed that the cast for the fourth New Year special would be Deborah Meaden, Kojey Radical, Lenny Rush, Steve Backshall and Zoe Ball.[57]
Airing in early 2024, this special features the winners of series 11 through 14, namely Sarah Kendall, Morgana Robinson, Sophie Duker and Dara Briain; series 15 winner Mae Martin was unavailable at the time of filming, and runner-up Kiell Smith-Bynoe took their place.[59]
Following the broadcast of Champion of Champions III on 14 January 2024, the cast for the show's seventeenth series was announced, featuring Joanne McNally, John Robins, Nick Mohammed, Sophie Willan and Steve Pemberton.[61]
Following the broadcast of the final episode of series 17 on 30 May 2024, the cast for the show's eighteenth series was announced, featuring Andy Zaltzman, Babatunde Alsh, Emma Sidi, Jack Dee and Rosie Jones.
Taskmasterclass is a series narrated by Davies and Horne in character as the Taskmaster and the Taskmaster's Assistant, that acts as a clip show looking back at tasks over the years, with specific emphasis on how they were attempted and focus on certain contestants and outcomes.
A press release prior to broadcast detailed that it would feature past contestants discussing previous task attempts, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the show;[73] this was not the case. No further episodes aside from the first have yet been scheduled or announced.
On 15 October 2020, an official podcast began. It is hosted by Ed Gamble, the winner of Series 9, who comments on each featured episode with a special guest. Initially it focused on Series 10, with each podcast released immediately after each Taskmaster episode was broadcast.[75] Episode 12 of the podcast focused on the 2021 "New Year Treat", and then from episode 13 onwards it returned to the very beginning starting with Taskmaster Series 1 Episode 1, returning to "real-time" episodes during the broadcast run of the new series and returning to the older series in the off-season.
Taskmaster: The People's Podcast began 15th April 2022. From the launch of the podcast until September 2023, the podcast was hosted by Series 8 champion Lou Sanders and "stats-master" Jack Bernhardt. In September 2023, Jenny Eclair, 3rd place contender in series 15, took over from Lou Sanders as co-host.[76] The hosts chat stats and facts about the show, and are joined by guests, ranging from the biggest Taskmaster Superfans, to the production team and international contestants/TMs/TM assistants.[77]
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